Re: [Freevo-users] The future of Freevo 2.0

2011-07-18 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:32:16 +0200 Francisco Eduardo Álvarez Solano franciscoe.alva...@gmail.com wrote: Just as Freevo uses mplayer for music/movie playing, why cannot it use tvtime/vdr for watching/recording tv? My TV signal is now DVB-T and incompatible with tvtime

Re: [Freevo-users] The future of Freevo 2.0

2011-07-17 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:47:46 +0200 Dirk Meyer dis...@freevo.org wrote: Long mail and I hope to get some feedback. Who is willing to help? Code C or Python? Clutter knowledge? Gstreamer? Web-stuff? Or a designer without coding? It would be a shame if Freevo dies, but I cannot do this alone.

[Freevo-users] QNAP

2011-03-17 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
I'm thinking of getting a QNAP server to run my Freevo, as the Eeebox is getting a bit suspect and took some persuading to reboot today. It has been locking up with usb hub errors. Anyone tried this or will I be trailblazing?

Re: [Freevo-users] What is freevo doing while Idle?

2011-02-16 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:59:58 -0500 Jim Duda j...@duda.tzo.com wrote: My biggest problem at this point is that with the lastest svn update, anytime I hit the MENU button, I get a MENU immediately followed by PLAY. When I use irw to see what's going on, I only get a MENU, but freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] Disable DPMS for HDMI output

2011-02-05 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:58:05 -0500 Jim Duda j...@duda.tzo.com wrote: I have a similar, but I think different problem. I have a LCD TV with multiple inputs. If I leave the input attached to Freevo, the video will stay on. I use the power button on the multi-input monitor. Freevo is always

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.9.0-5ubuntu1 doesnt start

2011-01-28 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:51:46 +0100 Simone Neugierig commerci...@gmx.net wrote: Check that you have installed the kaa packages too Please advise what version of Freevo your system has installed. python-kaa-base

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.9.2 Beta 1 Issues

2011-01-06 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:46:29 -0700 Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that Freevo would very much benefit from a custom distro like Piren was trying to be, especially for those of us newbies who struggle with dependencies. Yes, obviously, I suppose that would take a

Re: [Freevo-users] Upgraded machine

2011-01-04 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:36:57 +1100 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:17:19 +1100 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: I upgraded packages on my freevo box to Debian testing. I didn't upgrade the python or the freevo. From about then, with changes in hal

Re: [Freevo-users] Upgraded machine

2011-01-03 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:17:19 +1100 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: I upgraded packages on my freevo box to Debian testing. I didn't upgrade the python or the freevo. From about then, with changes in hal and udev, I've had weird things happen with my drive space, like it filling

[Freevo-users] Upgraded machine

2010-12-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
I upgraded packages on my freevo box to Debian testing. I didn't upgrade the python or the freevo. From about then, with changes in hal and udev, I've had weird things happen with my drive space, like it filling at a fast rate. To make sure that the tv would record for the next show we were

Re: [Freevo-users] Error with xmltv 0.5.58

2010-11-06 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:18:28 +0100 Leandro sullo sgorbio lnofe...@cybervalley.org wrote: Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net writes: [...] Can't locate Linux/DVB.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share

Re: [Freevo-users] TV Dvbstreamer Livepause error

2010-11-02 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:51:20 +0100 Leonardo Calamai leonardo.cala...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using Freevo since 2 weeks ago. I configured all except TV and I can't get it to work. I use Debian and I installed Freevo from .deb packages (version is 1.9.0). In my computer there is a DVB-T card

Re: [Freevo-users] Using MPD

2010-09-26 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:21:42 +0900 Alan lameventa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Can anybody explain me how to use Freevo 1.9.0 with MPD? I know there are 2 plugins, adn I have tried them both. The old one shows a separate MPD menu entry. Apparently it runs mpc and shows exactly the same

Re: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver

2010-09-24 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:07:09 -0700 (PDT) James Trietsch kero...@yahoo.com wrote: I think I solved it on my own, after a bit of hammering and research. The .pickle may have gotten truncated somehow, possibly when I did a hard-reset one time during some recent tinkering. I trimmed up the end

Re: [Freevo-users] A warm welcome and a fond farewell - Freevo-1 gets a new maintainer

2010-09-06 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, John Molohan wrote: Hi, After nearly 5 years as the maintainer of Freevo-1.x Duncan Webb is now stepping aside. Thanks Duncan and Adam (for the future) and John (for the messages) -- This

Re: [Freevo-users] Which distro?

2010-08-30 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Paul wrote: I've been using Freevo on Ubuntu Karmic Koala for about 6 months but always with the intention of trying something else at some point. The main reason is the audio performance, I seem to be one of the many users suffering from Ubuntu's implementation of

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo article in Ubuntu-User magazine

2010-08-23 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Phil Raymond wrote: I know mouse control can be added,but it's not there by default. I didn't think most people would want to go to the trouble of installing 2 utilities then map the commands, just to get it to work. so what's this from CONFIG_VERSION = 5.27 # # Process

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo article in Ubuntu-User magazine

2010-08-23 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Phil Raymond wrote: I was going by the Freevo wiki, which apparently is in need of updating. Sorry I missed that in the 5.27 config release notes. I'll try it, even though I'm use to using the keyboard. i prefer the keyboard - its wireless and is complete when used alone in

Re: [Freevo-users] broken mplayer

2010-07-20 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Fabrizio Ferraro wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: thanks izio, that works Good! ;) the video card is whatever is built into the eeebox, some intel card. the xorg.conf is running vesa at present ( i think) The VESA driver is really slow as it does not provide any

Re: [Freevo-users] broken mplayer

2010-07-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, John Molohan wrote: On 18/07/2010 9:07, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I was trying to sort out putting my machine onto another monitor with different resolution and in the process of making a new xorg.conf i broke mplayer so video can be played with xine but tv

Re: [Freevo-users] broken mplayer

2010-07-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Fabrizio Ferraro wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I can play recorded tv satisfactorily with mplayer -vo x11 -framedrop /path/to/the/file.ts but attempts to force x11 through local_conf.py result in an error that the video output is not suited to the card

[Freevo-users] broken mplayer

2010-07-18 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
I was trying to sort out putting my machine onto another monitor with different resolution and in the process of making a new xorg.conf i broke mplayer so video can be played with xine but tv is no-go as mplayer remains broken I can play recorded tv satisfactorily with mplayer -vo x11

Re: [Freevo-users] Is Freevo right for me? (Features question)

2010-06-25 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Dave Millman wrote: -a web interface so that I can control it from any device on the network (usually my laptop) yes -to be able to choose the audio target (multiple sound cards on the system or streaming to the client) not easily -a good music UI for browsing,

[Freevo-users] editing favourite

2010-05-15 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
Problem : Prospective program to be recorded is called V: The final battle The favourite gets programmed as V This matches Margaret RiVer; SurViVor etc in fact anything with v in the name Changing the name of the favourite is the only edit offered How can the actual program name be changed in

[Freevo-users] The Recording Server is not available

2010-05-15 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
I'm frustrated that I can't sort this one out. It's not my main freevo box, so there is no major concern. Debian testing, desktop machine, freevo in use so I can combine a tv guide with DVB-T telly So I have the Debian system with recordserver started at boot or from

[Freevo-users] another silly problem

2010-05-15 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
Being a straight out lazy person i just copied the local_conf.py in use from the other machine. It makes the TV fullscreen and I'd like the TV in a window 800*600, like I've got set in /etc/freevo/freevo.conf mplayer settings MPLAYER_ARGS['dvd'] = '-cache 8192' MPLAYER_ARGS['dvb'] =

Re: [Freevo-users] Audio Performance

2010-05-12 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Jim Duda wrote: Next, run mplayer, outside of freevo, with this command line with -v and maybe you'll be able to decipher why mplayer is struggling with freevo. I hope this helps. I'd place my bet on something to do with scaling for fullscreen -- BOFH excuse #21:

Re: [Freevo-users] IMDB lookup

2010-04-26 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Paul Harper wrote: Can anyone help? I'm sorry if this is obvious, I've spent a lot of time working other problems out as I'm new to freevo and linux and I want to advance my understanding at least a little, but this one has me stuck. Cheers. Is this IMDB for viewing

Re: [Freevo-users] Ubuntu Lirc Bug / Dish Network how to

2010-03-06 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Dan Schmidt wrote: In the hope that somebody can Google this information and avoid the frustration I experienced getting lirc working: (I suppose I could also put it on the wiki, unless anybody has some objections) no objections we don't have any dedicated WikiFiddlers

Re: [Freevo-users] OVERLAY_DIR and freevo cache --www-thumbs

2010-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Anders Eriksson wrote: Alright. It's not that I mount them ro, I just like to have the entire album tree ro. Ie, no write access to the files, nor the directories in which they live. The thumbmail generation craps out since it cannot create the thumbnails in the same

Re: [Freevo-users] multiple concurrent recording how to?

2010-01-24 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Paul Sijben wrote: When I installed my old freevo setup with 3 ivtv adapters I published some patches on this list against 1.6.x to allow for multiple concurrent recordings. Looking at the documentation I am led to believe that this did not make it into the tree. Is

Re: [Freevo-users] mpd plugin crashes

2010-01-04 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, leandro noferini wrote: John Molohan ha scritto: [...] I think there may have been a bug in the mpd plugin in 1.8.1 that's been fixed since. Check the changelog on the wiki to see if you can find anything. If not did you look through the mailing list archives to

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer at full screen

2009-12-29 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, bret clark wrote: I believe mplayer should play at full screen without any changes to a conf file. If it isn't make sure your geometry setting is correct in the freevo.conf file. now I remember that i have had this problem. I don't remember the solution. Did you search the

Re: [Freevo-users] problem with CommandMainMenuItem

2009-11-30 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Spart34 wrote: Hi, I want to display an access to Gcompris for my son in Freevo main menu. I put in my local_conf.py the following line *Code:* plugin.activate('command.CommandMainMenuItem', args=('/home/freevo/.freevo/fxd/gcompris.fxd'), level=45) When i comment

Re: [Freevo-users] Debian Squeeze - Freevo 1.9 starts and shuts down immediately

2009-11-09 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, John Molohan wrote: Or that the maintainer didn't clean his/her install before making the packages? Either way it sounds like a package problem. John it is a packaging problem i ran the rm-r on the directory and reinstalled the kaa modules and mine works too the package

Re: [Freevo-users] Debian Squeeze - Freevo 1.9 start s and shuts down immediately

2009-11-08 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Chris Jones wrote: Saw that thread. That's what I meant by inconclusive. ;-) But this is debian, and I'm not sure I want to do anything that would break apt. I'm really only using this debian system for evaluation purposes and to report bugs while there's time to fix

Re: [Freevo-users] Daylight saving

2009-10-02 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Bernard Mentink wrote: Hi All, It's that time of the year for us down-under in New Zealand. Since changing to daylight savings (clock forward an hour) my TV guide is an hour out. The clock on my PC is correct and the time on Freevo is shown correct, however the guide data

Re: [Freevo-users] Problem with recording HDTV

2009-08-25 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Jason Cox wrote: I have a problem with recording HDTV in Australia. When I select a HD channel I have no audio and so only a vido stream is vailable. I have checked from the command line and it appears to be a problem with mplayer as xine works ok. are you saying that

Re: [Freevo-users] Problem with recording HDTV

2009-08-25 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Jason Cox wrote: I have included the local_conf for referance as I also have a problem in that it saves the files with avi extension instead of ts, how can I change that? VCR_CMD = CONF.mplayer + ' -dumpstream -dumpfile %(filename)s dvb://%(channel)s' TV_RECORD_FILE_SUFFIX

Re: [Freevo-users] Problem with recording HDTV

2009-08-25 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Jason Cox wrote: Elizabeth, that is already how freevo is setup, but it always has an avi extenesion Jason you didn't attach your local_conf.py so I couldn't tell that suggests that you have another recording command somewhere in the file -- BOFH excuse #252: Our ISP is

Re: [Freevo-users] Problem with recording HDTV

2009-08-25 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Jason Cox wrote: Elizabeth, mplayer has no audio on the HDTV chanels only and neither dose the recorded stream. xine dose however have audio on the same channel. Jason so mplayer and mencoder are not finding the audio it's an important distinction, as ABCHD has to be

Re: [Freevo-users] Schedule recording information for shutdownscript

2009-08-23 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, mclu...@wp.pl wrote: Unfortunately autoshutdown function doesn't fit my needs. It doesn't support natively shutting down at specific time but after xx minutes of idle time (without checking remote connections). I made some investigation to find, that it is possible to call

Re: [Freevo-users] Motherboard with onboard HDMI

2009-08-20 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Dirk Meyer wrote: The gigabyte board would be perfect but jees, 1 pci slot, that's craziness. Is it? What do you need for a media PC? TV cards: USB (as much cards as you like), Sound: onboard, graphic: onboard (and you would not like PCI anyway), network: onboard. Is

Re: [Freevo-users] Update of Freevo packages for distributions?

2009-08-09 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, bluepuma.excite wrote: Hello, Freevo looks very interesting and I hope it can run on a Celeron 733 MHz with only 128 MB of RAM. some things will be slow As a Linux newbie I would love to just install a full distro, but they all seem to be very outdated. you can't have

Re: [Freevo-users] Recordings fail with debian installed freevo

2009-08-08 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Bjoern Franke wrote: Did you enable DEBUG_CHILDAPP = 1 in your local_conf.py? Then you could take a look why mencoder does not run. hth is mencoder installed? it is a separate package on Debain -- BOFH excuse #360: Your parity check is overdrawn and you're out of cache.

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo+mplayer - Audio/video out of sync'

2009-08-07 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Chris Jones wrote: Has anyone seen this with Freevo 1.8.1 and found some way to address or alleviate this issue? yes and since i put --framedrop in the command it is in sync, and i certainly don't notice the framedrops happening I'm using a low powered machine on the job

Re: [Freevo-users] Does freevo change system mixer settings..?

2009-07-27 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote: I am a little baffled by this: since I installed freevo, I find that my mixer settings as displayed by alsamixer are regularly tampered with. The machine is an old laptop with cheap speakers - they're a no-brand 3-way outfit I paid less that twenty

Re: [Freevo-users] RSS link that is known to work with freevo

2009-07-13 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote: RSS is the one area where I have not been able to get freevo to work. Could anyone provide a link that is known to work so I can use that to test my setup and figure out what's wrong with my setup? Thanks, CJ plugin.activate('headlines', level=45)

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-12 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote: The irony of it is that I was looking for a curses-based front-end to mplayer because as I may have mentioned elsewhere I didn't need the aggravation of a GUI.. and I end up with this really delightful freevo interface.. let's call it a post GUI concept.

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-11 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote: Do you mean that if I have 20-30 directories with .mp3's or .flv's, I need to edit the config file every time I want to switch to a different directory.? no, be smarter than that. If they are not in the same directory tree then make a music directory

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-11 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote: Do I need to create a freevo directory with a symlink to each of the thousands of .mp3/.flv files on this system and then edit the local conf file to point freevo to that directory of symlinks..? no, if you have a system in which your mp3 files / flv

Re: [Freevo-users] TVTime setup help

2009-07-09 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Bernard Mentink wrote: Hi Evan, My card is using the cx2388x chipset, which the tvtime site says is supported, tuning and all. I just need help in how to tune the card. If I start tvtime with tvtime -d /dev/dvb/adapter0/ it just complains, so not getting far at

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer options confusion

2009-06-20 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Bernard Mentink wrote: Thanks Elizabeth, It's also the confusing multiple methods to pass mplayer options to Freevo, that are annoying: For example: well i need the differing options - to watch dvb i need to use -framedrop but to watch a dvd i don't... there is a really

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer options confusion

2009-06-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Bernard Mentink wrote: I am really confused with how to pass options to mplayer for various media. I agree. I printed out the manpage once, and it took about 30 pages. -- BOFH excuse #161: monitor VLF leakage

Re: [Freevo-users] Recordserver starting error

2009-06-03 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Publicy wrote: I upgrade from a fresh 1.8.3 install. Sorry for this question but what is faorite.pickle file ? Even with several restart the file is not created, should I manually create It ? Yoann It will only exist after you have some favourites set in your tv

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo User

2009-04-29 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Laurence Huizinga wrote: Hi, I just installed freevo from sid repositories after a standard debian lenny install with kde as a de. I have just started setting freevo up and am keen to have it set up nicely to play music, videos and tv including timeshifting. My question

Re: [Freevo-users] Australian TV Channels

2009-04-16 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, John Spencer wrote: Hi everyone I've been using Freevo for quite a number of years but I've never had a TV tuner until now. I've got mine working in linux using Me-tv, so I know it works.  I'm using an up to date release of Ubuntu(8.10). However, despite my best

Re: [Freevo-users] Australian TV Channels

2009-04-16 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, John Spencer wrote:  A lot of the links are broken or no longer maintained. I've fixed the shepherd links, just now. -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java

[Freevo-users] mplayer troubles

2009-04-09 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
In January Larry (lhuizinga) reported that he just couldn't get mplayer to work with a DVB-T card. Now I've got one with similar troubles. When I first installed the DVB-T stuff on the machine, I tested with mplayer and it worked. Then I decided to install vlc and with the usual dependency

Re: [Freevo-users] Your experiences with TV guide responsiveness in freevo-1.x?

2009-04-06 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Evan Hisey wrote: Gees' wish I hardware that nice for freevo, or my desktop for that matter. The Intel Dual Core is the Atom in the Eeebox. Yes its nice hardware, and I bought it for about a third of the price of a desktop machine, and that included a keyboard and mouse

Re: [Freevo-users] yet_another_new_install

2009-04-05 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Because I bought an Eeebox and decided to see how it would perform for the Freevo box, I have made yet another new install of Freevo. Somethings just don't work the same in the two running installs of Freevo 1.8.3 from Debian experimental. Number one

[Freevo-users] yet_another_new_install

2009-04-04 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
Because I bought an Eeebox and decided to see how it would perform for the Freevo box, I have made yet another new install of Freevo. Somethings just don't work the same in the two running installs of Freevo 1.8.3 from Debian experimental. Number one - I have installed Xfce4 instead of Kde.

Re: [Freevo-users] Your experiences with TV guide responsiveness in freevo-1.x?

2009-04-04 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, John Molohan wrote: Hi, I'm looking for feedback on your experience on the responsiveness of the TV guide when scrolling in freevo-1.x. I know is a slow area for freevo but for a long time I put my bad experience with big delays down to a 1GHz athlon chip. That's now been

Re: [Freevo-users] VHS video input

2009-03-24 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: After recording cache/record.soon is not cleared. I can watch TV, but the radio is prevented from working. v1.8.3 -- No job too big; no fee too big! -- Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghost-busters

Re: [Freevo-users] VHS video input

2009-03-24 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: TV_CHANNELS = [ ( 'sbshd.free.au', 'SBS HD' , 'SBS HD', '', 0 ), ( 'abchd.free.au' ,'ABC HD' , 'ABC HDTV', None, 0  ), What are the options for the fourth field? ' ' and None work, a negative integer doesn't. -- Overfiend

Re: [Freevo-users] VHS video input

2009-03-23 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: The problem is that the record server was written to allow only one record plug-in. This means it is difficult to mix different types of card. One possibility to to record from the /dev/video32 (The raw video capture device) and use the generic record

Re: [Freevo-users] VHS video input

2009-03-22 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I've got dvb-t tv running, and now i'm experimenting with the input on the old Hauppauge350 so i can run it into S-Video and line in and watch stuff off the (ancient) VHS recorder / player so how will i integrate this into freevo? I've been looking

[Freevo-users] this is filling up my log

2009-03-22 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
ERRORosd.py (1086): __draw_transparent_text__: invalid index to scalar variable. any idea what i have missed from the install?? -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering

Re: [Freevo-users] New user Install Help

2009-03-21 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Freevo 1.8.3 was in experimental in january when I installed it. I did it about 6 times, got very slick at it but didn't document for the wiki :-( i could go through this tomorrow, when it is Saturday, and try to document install, then we need

Re: [Freevo-users] New user Install Help

2009-03-21 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Philip M. McDonnell wrote: I would love to make an updated livecd that you could use and install when ready... the hassle with this is the different needs for tv in different countries, different regions and then different hardware -- I go on working for the same

[Freevo-users] VHS video input

2009-03-21 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
I've got dvb-t tv running, and now i'm experimenting with the input on the old Hauppauge350 so i can run it into S-Video and line in and watch stuff off the (ancient) VHS recorder / player so how will i integrate this into freevo?

Re: [Freevo-users] New user Install Help

2009-03-20 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Philip M. McDonnell wrote: Hello all Freevoer's... I am new here but have been looking at all the documentation and looking throught the Wiki and Forums. I am currently running Ubuntu 8.10 and can't for the life of me get Freevo 1.8.3 installed. I tried source, I tried

Re: [Freevo-users] Help freevo - put some screenshots on the wiki

2009-03-13 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, John Molohan wrote: No takers? :( I'm using a copyrighted photo each day as a background, so no, I can't put a screenshot of that on the wiki. -- It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. --

Re: [Freevo-users] Help freevo - put some screenshots on the wiki

2009-03-13 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, John Molohan wrote: You could always switch skin for a few minutes. John but they are all ugly -- edLin LWE? edLin Linux W?? E?? seeS will eatyou JHM World Expo? edLin i see -- Apps built

Re: [Freevo-users] Help freevo - put some screenshots on the wiki

2009-03-13 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, John Molohan wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, John Molohan wrote:   You could always switch skin for a few minutes. John     but they are all ugly   =-O   even geexbox. It's not _too_ hard to make your own http

Re: [Freevo-users] Repos for Deb Etch amd64

2009-02-07 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, lhuizi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi, Following issues with Python and Archlinux I am installing freevo on my new Debian Etch amd64 box. However, I am having trouble deciphering from the web what repo I can put in my /etc/apt/sources.list to download freevo and install. Larry

Re: [Freevo-users] Advice on high end sound cards m-audio, creative, others?

2009-02-06 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, John Molohan wrote: I said this in passing to a sales guy in one of the high end hifi dealers here a couple of years ago and he disagreed. Just ask to see the Physics Degree when you get BS (BadStuff, Strine pronunication) from hifi sales people -- Even more amazing was

Re: [Freevo-users] nova t-500

2009-02-03 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Alberto Hernando wrote: The funny thing is... I already tried kaffeine, but it said I had no dvb device ;) Well, my devices are /dev/dvb* and it seems that the standards are /dev/dvb/device*/* or something like that. So first I'm trying to write a proper rule for udev.

Re: [Freevo-users] yet another install

2009-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: while it is not in use now, nothing happened. I watched top carefully and mplayer died so fast I didn't usually see it appear. This where DEBUG_CHILDAPP comes in handy as it saves the output of mplayer to a pair of log files, you can then examine

Re: [Freevo-users] yet another install

2009-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: DEBUG_CHILDAPP enables the spawned processes to create 2 log files which should be named something like: mplayer-stdout*, mplayer-stderr*. I don't think it depends on DEBUG but you can add: LOGGING = logging.DEBUG LOGGING_RECORDSERVER = logging.DEBUG

Re: [Freevo-users] yet another install

2009-01-29 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: the Celeron processor just didn't have enough grunt to run the dvb-t stream and recording so i'm back using the quad core with loads of RAM to run the tv Now, after some fiddling, the standard mplayer command does record

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.8.3 problems

2009-01-29 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Debian lenny base install with freevo from experimental big enough computer to cope with the load 1. recordserver not starting on boot. This is *odd* because the previous three efforts didn't have this problem. /etc/default

Re: [Freevo-users] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-26 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Dirk Meyer wrote: iz dodd wrote: the old celeron did not have enough power to record and run the tuner, so the s-presso case is out of service. DVB or analog? A DVB recorder does not need much CPU power. I use an AMD Geode with 500 MHz and that is enough. If you want

Re: [Freevo-users] Favourites

2009-01-24 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: atlantice, bluestarr, crystal, dark, info, noia, panorama all crash on trying to edit this particular name of favourite.   Definitely worth a bug report. Don't know why these skins do not allow editing of favourites. they can't draw the box for

[Freevo-users] Favourites

2009-01-23 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
Is there a way of fuzzy matching for favourites? Each Saturday a ScoobyDoo comic gets broadcast, but the EPG gives them the full title, and it doesn't work as a favourite to be recorded each week? eg ScoobyDoo in Where's my Mummy? -- Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash

Re: [Freevo-users] Favourites

2009-01-23 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, John Molohan wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Is there a way of fuzzy matching for favourites? Each Saturday a ScoobyDoo comic gets broadcast, but the EPG gives them the full title, and it doesn't work as a favourite to be recorded each week? eg ScoobyDoo in Where's my

Re: [Freevo-users] Favourites

2009-01-23 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, John Molohan wrote: What skin are you using? Did you try it with any of the others? I'll try it over the weekend but I'd say it's one for the bug tracker. a modified panorama skin - just uses a custom background it's not the length of the name of the favourite some other

Re: [Freevo-users] Favourites

2009-01-23 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, John Molohan wrote: What skin are you using? Did you try it with any of the others? I'll try it over the weekend but I'd say it's one for the bug tracker. a modified panorama skin - just uses a custom background it's

Re: [Freevo-users] Fwd: Freevo Help !!!

2009-01-16 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, rahul G wrote:   Hi Duncan,                  I am using freevo-1.8.3 version with two diffrent cards one is pinnacle 50i and other is Hauppauge-350 card ..both are working fine with the freevo ..only one part I am missing ..I want to record live show while watching live

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording not starting and problem with channel management

2009-01-15 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, markus frei wrote: When freevo adds it's info to the tvtime stationlist.xml file, it also adds US Cable to the band identifier. This makes it impossible to actually tune in to the channel. When I then edit the stationlist.xml file and change US Cable to Custom, then

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording not starting and problem with channel management

2009-01-15 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, markus frei wrote: 2).  I can't get any recording from TV to start. I do get a file with the scheduled recording info, but no recording itself. I tried the instructions on the following Link where there is a bash script that is run to start mencoder,

Re: [Freevo-users] TV not working via Watch TV - ok via mplayer

2009-01-10 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Derek C wrote: Please ignore my message! Not likely! welcome to Freevo you have discovered one of the most difficult parts - checking Python code in that local_conf.py I work on a system where I change one or two things, then from the terminal freevo stop freevo

[Freevo-users] yet another install

2009-01-06 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
the Celeron processor just didn't have enough grunt to run the dvb-t stream and recording so i'm back using the quad core with loads of RAM to run the tv Now, after some fiddling, the standard mplayer command does record for me VCR_CMD = CONF.mplayer + ' -dumpstream -dumpfile %(filename)s

[Freevo-users] 1.8.3 problems

2009-01-06 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
Debian lenny base install with freevo from experimental big enough computer to cope with the load 1. recordserver not starting on boot. This is *odd* because the previous three efforts didn't have this problem. /etc/default/freevo and /etc/freevo/debconf.sh both have START_FREEVO_RECORDSERVER=1

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1.8.2 can't launch Generic Games

2009-01-06 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Andrea Magatti wrote: Thanks, but this is exactly what I did, Anyway i've go a doubt:  the file: /etc/freeov/games/tuxracer/tuxracer.tux is just an empty file, or a link to the game's executable? thanks again an empty file -- BOFH Excuse #157: Incorrect time

Re: [Freevo-users] Favourites

2009-01-05 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Andreas Dick wrote: just as suggestion for a test envoirement: I prefere two partititions on the system harddisk, one with the stable and the other with the test system... and if the test system get stable, it changes. and you have the same hardware situation on both

Re: [Freevo-users] Favourites

2009-01-05 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Going from 1.7.3 to 1.8.3 on a separate box (to ensure its all working before changeover) can i convert /var/lib/freevo/record_schedule.xml into /var/lib/freevo/favorites.pickle ?? freevo convert_favorites Make a backup

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.8.3 DVB-T recording

2009-01-04 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Stephen Rowles wrote: Is there anything in the mplayer-stdout.log and stderr.log files? That might be helpful to know what is wrong, for me I had forgotten to put the channels.conf file in .mplayer for the user running freevo but the error was quite criptic ;)... the log

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.8.3 DVB-T recording

2009-01-04 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: his has been reported and fixed in svn: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2482703group_id= 46652atid=446895 The fix is to change the line: (result, response) = self.es.ping('connection test') to result = self.es.ping() Duncan

[Freevo-users] 1.8.3 DVB-T recording

2009-01-03 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
I've just got this far with setting up using DVB-T I can watch TV fine in Freevo. I've made three attempts on recording a stream through Freevo and not been successful yet. Using the wiki page http://doc.freevo.org/DVBConfig as reference First try with the TV_VIDEO_GROUPS = [

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